Sash-fastener



(No Model.)

W. P. BAILEY.

' SASH FASTENER. No. 280,892. Patented July 10, 1883.

N. PETUIS. MUMM, WalhinM D. C

locking-bolt detached.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. BAILEY, or sr. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

SASH-FASTENER.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 280,892, dated July 10, 1883.

Application filed December-5; 18:32. (No'modchi To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM FLETCHER BAILEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey, in the State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVindow- Sash Fasteners, of which the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being also had to the accompanying drawings, in which- I Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of portions of the upper and lower sash with their meeting-railslockedtogether. Fig. 2is a similar view with the meetingrails separated and unlocked. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the Fig. i is a perspective view of a portion of one of the lower corners of a sash, with the slotted locking-plate shown arranged therein.

This invention relates to window-sash fasteners; and it consists in the construction and the combination of parts hereinafter particularly described, and then sought to be specifically defined by the claim.

In the drawings, A is the window-frame, B the casing, G the parting-strips, D the stops, and E E the sash, all constructed in the ordinary manner.

I Embedded in the lower part of the upper sash, Efl-is a metal plate, L, through the upper part (if which a hole, 1), is formed, and leading downward from this hole is a slot, 0, as shown in Fig. 4. In the rear of the plate L- a cavity,

a, is formed in the wood of the sash the full width or wider than the hole I), and extending just large enough to pass through the hole I) in the plate L, while the shank of the screw G 4 5 hole I), the head may be screwed into the cavity a below the plate G, and then when the two ineetingrails of the sash are brought together again, as shown in Fig. 1, the head I will pass down behind the plate L, and the shank of the screw G pass down into the slot 0. Then by reversing the screw the head I may be drawn out against the inside of the plate L and the two sash firmly drawn and held together. This will close the joint be tween the meeting-rails and exclude all cold air, &c., and at the same time form-a burglarproof meeting-rail lock. I

' If desired, avulcanite or other soft cushion, 01, may be attached to the head I to'protect the sash from abrasion should it be desired to use the screw G as an ordinary sash-fastener by screwing it against the opposite sash at other points than where the plate L occur.

Having described my invention and set forth its merits, what I claim is j The sash E provided with a cavity, a, and a plate, L, provided with a hole, I), and slot 0, and adapted to be secured over said cavity, in combination with a sash, E, provided with a bracket, F, and a screw, G, tapped through said bracket, and provided with a head, I, adapted to pass through said hole b, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM FLETCHER BAILEY;

lVitnesscs:

G. N. lVoonwAnD, Louis FEESER, Sr. 

